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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Language issues

I bought dragon age inquisition GOTY edition and went on to install it. When downloading it, it only gave me the option for Portuguese, even though, both my system and origin settings are all in English. When I got to the game, it was the expected mess. The sounds are all in English, but every text, dialogues, items and all, are in Portuguese. In game there is no option to change the language either. I tried going my way for the first hour, but trying to decipher the minds of the translators to figure out what was originally meant by the texts was painful.

I tried chatting with support but they couldn't help.

Does anyone have any info that could help me with that? I just want to play the game in its original language, or at least in a single language, not this messy double language deal.

When I bought witcher 3 for example, I can play the game in so many different languages, and they are actual full translations, not a mix of english and something else.

Thank you for reading through my rage 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Unbelievable. Doing that actually works. What you need to do, if you have the "portuguese" version is the following:

    Go to the data/win32/ folder and check the following folders: loc, loctext, locfacefx. They all should already have the english files en.sb and en.loc, but if they don't, download the english voice over (which shouldn't be necessary anyway). Then on the loctext folder, move both the br.sb and br.loc files to a backup folder, then rename the en.sb and en.loc to br.sb and br.loc. Make a backup of the en.sb and en.loc files just in case. Then, using an editor such as notepad++ (windows notepad won't work because it will mess up the files when it saves them), replace all occurrences of "/en/" to "/br/" on both files. 

    And that's it. You get back to the original version of the game.

    Thanks everyone who was concerned. If anyone tries this and it doesn't work, let me know and I can explain better if needed.

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  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
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    6 years ago

    Hey @djcan999 when posting on the English AHQ forums we would ask that you do so in English.


    Darko

  • etinin1's avatar
    etinin1
    5 years ago

    I am highly disappointed by this stupid region lock. Just because I live in Brazil doesn't mean I want to put with the disgusting second-rate translation to Portuguese. I have always played everything in English since I was a kid and I certainly did not subscribe to EA Play so they could choose the language of my games based on questionable 'region locks'.

    To those still with issues, I'd like to point out that the original method for replacing the localized files also works for the DLCs. Just go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age Inquisition\Update\(dlcname)\Data\Win32\loctext\(dlcname)\", rename to en.sb and en.toc files to the desired language (i.e. br.sb and br.toc), and then replace the strings using any software which will not mess up the encoding (I like using HxD, a free hex editor). Make sure to replace /en with /[desired language code] (i.e. replace /en with /br). Replacing /en/ with /[desired language code]/ will not suffice and may get you stuck in the loading screen. Any DLC which doesn't have the loctext folder with the matching localized files can be safely ignored, since it should not alter the in-game text.

  • Yeah guys that /en notion - without trailing "/" is important
    And +1 to frustration with region locks. Now like in old good times we have to reverse engeneer games to make them just work, like, its written in description English is supported but who ever said it would work out of the box? lol
    They said the decisions made in Origins and DA2 would have impact on Inquisition, yeah, but they forgot to make a simple tool to import them from saves, cloud or not. Had to spend two days and familiarize myself with Toolset, MS SQL, GFF editors, Plot Flags scripts, python utils mods and what not just to read all the statuses from my 6 years old saves to recreate them in Dragon Age Keep.. but that's how much I wanted to continue story in the exact world I made decisions in..

    BioWare devs make wonderful, captivating games, as always. Its just... different people do everything possible to botch it.